Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Canal locks.
Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
- WRENN ID
- proud-passage-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- Canal locks
- Address
- Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal, Southstoke
- OS grid reference
- ST 744 605
- Coordinates
- 51.34383, -2.36869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flight of 5 Locks on the former Somersetshire Coal Canal, built around 1805, consists of five disused locks. The surveyor for the Canal Company was William Smith, known as the 'Father of British Geology', while the engineer for this flight, originally comprising 19 locks, was likely William Bennet. Currently, four locks are buried or destroyed, and ten are located in the nearby parish of Combe Hay.
These locks are of standard dimensions, approximately 70 feet long and 7 feet wide. The ashlar retaining walls still stand at about 10 to 12 feet high, although some are in poor condition. The entrance and exit walls are battered and splayed, and there are remnants of sluices and culverts. Notably, the fourth lock from the west features a milestone on the north-west side, which originally had a cast iron plate indicating "4/MILES," though this plate is now missing.
These five locks represent the final successful effort to manage the change in level on the Paulton branch of the canal, following two previous unsuccessful attempts involving a caisson lock and an inclined plane with three lower locks.
Local climate
Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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